100 Haakon Schetelig. [No. 8. 
forms properly belonging to the Scandinavian Peninsula; thus the 
nose of the animal-head in the said English brooehes is shaped like 
two semicireular, slightly convex wings, å form appearing in several 
Danish brooches and also observed in å few specimens from Nor- 
way; but the form so common in Norway with åa nose marked by 
two hemispherical knobs (as seen for instance in the figs. 38, 57, 
Fig. 120. 1. Fig. 121. 
90) is never seen in the crueiform brooches from England. The 
brooeh illustrated in fig. 116 is also related to Danish forms by 
having a longer bow than is usually the case in Norway and 
Sweden, though it must be added that this is not such aå regular 
feature in the English as it is in the Danish brooehes. Of greater 
importance is the form of the head of the brooches, the shape of 
